Re: mutt development and road map
On 2005-07-16 13:59:44 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:45:23PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Even if your editor makes this work as you want, there are other
> > problems. You need to fix the terminal so that when you do a cat
> > or a grep, you get an indentation of 2 characters (or whatever
> > you wish) instead of 8. And fix the web browsers too, in case you
> > need to see source files from the web. And any other application
> > that can show source files...
> >
> honestly, i could not care less. i don't mind if in some cases i'm
> virtually forced to use 8-col tabs instead of my preferred 4-col tabs.
> that's the advantage of this style - it works with any tab width.
> of course my code is formatted to fit into 80 cols only with 4-col tabs,
> but that's only a minor nuisance, too.
Perhaps for you, but not for everyone. The advantage of all-spaces
is consistency and one is ensured that the code is displayed nicely
everywhere.
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